Short takes
A big cookie lies pulverized in a tight accretion disc in the bus lane of Madison Avenue. Two black (soot-stained?) pigeons peck away at the unbelievable bonanza. Peck peck hop peck. Cars are coming. A gray...
ManhattanA collection of 44 posts
Tell them Seth sent you
A delightful Times article about New York City's speakeasies: One person who probably did not patronize the place was William M. Bennett, who in 1929 ran in the Republican mayoral primary as a dry...
Coming to town for the Nebulas?
Raise your hand if you're planning to attend Nebula Awards Weekend in New York next month....
Friday the 13th indeed
I've been hearing rumors for a while, but now that the paper of record is on the record... A man jumped to his death Friday out the window of a 69th-floor law office in...
An evening of drunken de-scotch-ery
So, as threatened, Paul (of theinferior4 fame) and Colin and I went down to the Brandy Library yesterday evening to attend a Spirit School class in rare & precious scotches at the feet of Ethan Kelley...
Technicolor pachyderms aren't really too much for me
The elephants are coming! The elephants are coming! I went with eleanor and a couple of other friends, wow, maybe three years ago to see the elephants emerge from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and it was a...